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Missing Mybackup files in Manage and Restore View

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There are 30 incremental Mybackup files on my external hard drive, which were also reflected in the Acronis Manage and Restore view. Yesterday I needed to perform a Whole Disk Restore on my computer which seems to have gone well. The 30 Mybackup files are still on my hard drive, however only 6 of them (non-consecutive dates) now show up on the Acronis Manage and Restore view now. What might have happened to them, and how do I get Acronis to recognize all the Mybackup files on the external hard drive?

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Open the Recovery module and browse your hard drive to the file storage location.

You can then choose the exact incremental you wish to restore and all prior will be chosen. You can choose the file from the right pane.

While browsing, You can try right clicking a missing file and see what your right click options might be.
Perhaps the fact that you have pointed to these may add them to your normal display but you may have to point to each missing file.

Thank you very much GroverH!

Just to document exactly what I did for others who may run into this.

On the Manage and Restore view I selected "Explore Backup" on the tool bar. In Explore Backup I selected my hard drive under "Other Places" which brought up all 30 of the MyBackup files. Then I right clicked on one of the files that wasn't showing up in the Manage and Restore view. From there I selected "Validate Backup Archive". When the Validate Backup Archive window came up, before I could even run it, suddenly all of the missing MyBackup files popped up on the Manage and Review. Go figure.

Thanks again for putting me on the right track.

William,
A very nice solution. Thank you for sharing it with us. Be aware of the risks of having 30 incremental backups. Should say #15 become corrupt for any reason (bad sector,etc), then backups 15-30 are useless and cannot be read since there is a bad link in the backup chain. You may want to consider performing a full backup more often.